26 October 1918

Transfer workshops to the south?

Assign workers' commissars?

/ From starving provinces
and advanced [ones]

LENIN MISCELLANY

The main thing — amoeba.

Collect all metals: appoint a commission.

Vladimirov's Commission.²

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¹ Lenin's notes represent a draft decree on intensifying railway work based on V. I. Nevsky's report at a session of the Council of People's Commissars on 26 October 1918. We reproduce the Council of People's Commissars decree in full: "Add to the commission appointed by the Council of People's Commissars on 24 October of this year on the question of relations between the Committee of Communications and other commissariats, a representative of the Metal Department under the Supreme Council of the National Economy. Assign the commission the following tasks:

a) to work out technical measures for improving railways and increasing repair productivity,

b) measures for collecting metal,

c) increasing unloading operations.

d) Extend the system of assigning workers' commissars to all food supply and all railway administration departments, up to and including the offices and specialists" (Protocol of the Council of People's Commissars No. 214, arch. I. L. No. 11981.)

² M. K. Vladimirov — in 1918, member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply.